Rahul Chauhan

Updates to overwrite configuration on tape

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### Description This is the current `overwrite` scenario as I understand it. 1. Currently, rucio does not allow overwriting on `Tape` (By default) https://github.com/rucio/rucio/blob/1117e15fdd373ba6a0c24b22b7bd564c13f77241/lib/rucio/transfertool/fts3.py#L333-L334 2. Overwrite on DISKs (By Default)...

Allow permissions to optionally return a message

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### Description The current permission checks only tell a user that they are not allowed to issue a specific command. However they do not explain any reason why. For e.g....

### Description A call to `attach_dids` results in an internal server error while trying to raise an exception. https://github.com/rucio/rucio/blob/1fc0c97416844ab81abca478558bd0091777c354/lib/rucio/core/did.py#L665 This is the trace in the server ``` "Internal Error tuple...

### Description The `rucio-admin rse delete-attribute` requires `--key`, `--rse` and the `--value` option. However the client does not. One can always provide a random value and make it work, but...

Geoip sort reqests for replicas go unnoticed

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### Description In cases where the geoip download url and license are not configured in the system. As required here, https://github.com/rucio/rucio/blob/ca273f1af7c12d738ef2770261ac36c230503958/lib/rucio/core/replica_sorter.py#L66-L69 The httpd-error logs are spammed with ` /tmp/GeoLite2-City.mmdb does...

Redundant rse expression options in daemons

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### Description Few rucio-daemons take 3 rse_expression to decide on rses to work on. Namely `exclude-rses`, `include-rses` and `rses`. This can now be reduced to 1, `rses`. ``` --exclude-rses EXCLUDE_RSES...

### Description On upgrading to Rucio 34, we observed `gridFTP` was being used with priority, instead of the domain priority configuration of protocols in the RSE, which is `davs` for...